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1968 President Johnson signs the Indian Civil Rights Act
1media/Screen Shot 2022-10-21 at 4.05.42 PM_thumb.png2022-10-21T23:07:20+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911President Lyndon Johnson calls for “termination” to be replaced by Indian “self-determination.” Congress passes the Indian Civil Rights Act “to ensure that the American Indian is afforded the broad constitutional rights secured to other Americans … [in order to] protect individual Indians from arbitrary and unjust actions of tribal governments.” “The Act is a highly controversial law because it authorizes federal courts to intervene in intra-tribal disputes, a power they never had before. Many Indians bitterly resent this development. Essentially, it does two things: First, it confers certain rights on all persons who are subject to the jurisdiction of a tribal government. Second, it authorizes federal courts to enforce many of these rights.”plain2022-10-21T23:07:20+00:001968Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49